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How to Call Controllers in External Assemblies in ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:16:05 GMT

In this post Simone shows you how to call ASP.NET MVC controllers that are embedded in external assemblies.

MVC HtmlHelper for Gravatar

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:01:04 GMT

Ryan plugs his Gravatar library into MVC in order to create a HTML view helper for building gravatar images.

Introduction to NHibernate: Collection Relationships (Part 5)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:16:12 GMT

Another screencast on how to use NHibernate: Collection Relationships (Part 5)

ASP.NET MVC Beta1 in a few weeks and v1 by end of year

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:01:07 GMT

A tweet in the morning, straight from Remix08 UK, where ScottGu is doing a presentation on ASP.NET MVC: ScottGu says feature complete MVC beta "in a few weeks". final v1 by end of year

Subtext 2 supports OpenID

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Jon explains how OpenID works in Subtext 2 and how to configure it.

A sneak peak at ASP.NET AJAX 4.0's client-side templating

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:31:15 GMT

Hot on the heels of the recent ASP.NET AJAX roadmap, Bertrand and team have released a limited preview of the new AJAX functionality coming in ASP.NET 4.0. Dave is giving a sneak peak about it

ReSharper 4 approaching beta status

Tue, 20 May 2008 16:16:05 GMT

No official announcement yet, but the ReSharper 4.0 Nightly Build page is showing the first build marked as stable and with the status "Beta Candidate".

Visual LINQ Query Builder - VS 2008 Add-In

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Visual Linq Query Builder helps you create Linq to SQL queries for your programs

Most Useful 50 CSS Tips

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A useful page that provides a nice listing of various CSS tips, tricks and tools.

The most important quality of a developer: Self-criticism

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:16:02 GMT

I think an awful lot of creation is made out of, also, the self-criticism of a developer, and very often I think probably what makes one seem better than another his that his critical sense is more acute. It may not be that he is more gifted in any way but just that he has a better critical sense.

Repository Base class in SubSonic 2.1

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Rob Conrey shows off how to implement a SubSonic Dal without using the Active Record Pattern.

CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA!

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:26:21 GMT

Understand that I am no fan of CAPTCHA. I view them as a necessary and important evil, one of precious few things separating average internet users from a torrential deluge of email, comment, and forum spam.

Implementing Interfaces: ICloneable and IComparable

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A friend of mine was showing me about some common interfaces and some good use cases for them the other day. A discussion arose of how to accurately create a deep copy of an object and the best way to go about it. Shortly after that discussion we got into the Sort() method and how to dictate how that method will sort your objects. This is when he spilled into telling me all about these common interfaces.

ASP.NET MVC Link collection

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:31:02 GMT

Links to get started fast with Microsoft MVC.

MSDN Code Gallery (Direct link)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:16:02 GMT

The MSDN Code Gallery is a portal for snippets, samples and other resources. In it you can find pages that describe samples and supporting documents including screenshots and design documents. In addition, you will find hosted conversations about these samples, sample projects or other resources that have been provided to the community. This destination is open to the entire community to contribute content to. (Description from Soma's blog)

Keep your CSS files clean with a tiny HttpHandler

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:16:02 GMT

CSS, is the heart of any web application today. Writing cross browser CSS is really a hell of an art and including CSS files selectively and writing CSS hacks that will work out in one browser but wont in other is also a tedious job...

Completely free PDF .NET library written in C#

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Want to add PDF support to your .NET project. Try this. Open Source library to create/edit PDF files. With unrestricted license to change, sell, sublicense.

Create Web Sites+Services with ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:31:03 GMT

An example library that shows how, with one line of code and a few conventions, your ASP.NET web site can instantly serve up HTML, POX, or JSON. Very cool!

Log4net: simple way to use in your Asp.net application

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:16:04 GMT

How to use Log4net in your asp.net application.

ScottGu and his team strike again

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:31:04 GMT

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project for VS2008

Using Embedded Resources for HTML EMail Templates

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:01:02 GMT

Most web applications need to send out email for a variety of purposes, right? I like to use email as a sort of extended user interface - allowing entry points to let the user conveniently do work by getting an email and clicking on a link. I've struggled for a while with a good way of managing email templates to use in my applications. Here's a good method that simplifies the process of templating.

Creating Zip Archives In .Net Without An External Library

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:16:03 GMT

Jon Galloway offers his advice on creating your own zip library. SharpZipLib provides best free .NET compression library, but what if you can't use it due to the GPL license? I'll look at a few options, ending with my favorite - System.IO.Packaging.

How to add a required validator to a CheckBoxList

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:31:02 GMT

The standard RequiredFieldValidator doesn't work with a CheckBoxList. Here is how to make a custom validator to accomplish the task.

What ASP.NET Developers Should Know About JavaScript

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:46:02 GMT

This article approaches JavaScript from the perspective of an ASP.NET developer who is comfortable with the paradigms and patterns of either C# or Visual Basic. The article doesn't look at how to use JavaScript from ASP.NET exactly, but it does look at why JavaScript is so different from the two languages we commonly use with the .NET CLR.

Getting with it: Test-Driven Development

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Introduction to Test-Driven Development, from a developer who should have learnt sooner.